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What are the biases of Lemmy?

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    You should get the socks and try again.

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    #160

    Eh, I'm not that interested in Arch. I have Pop!_OS, and it just works (unlike Manjaro, that broke at least once every six months). I was installing it on an older laptop, just for the sake of it (not sure if I would've used it later on)

    Also, I'm sure it'd be hella sus to get striped thigh-high socks. Especially with such warm days (we have coloured heat warnings 'round these parks!) Installing Arch I can explain, and no one would care. Just tech nerd mumbo jumbo, who gives a shit. Why I need long, colourful socks?! …

    Other than that, yeah, I'd do it. Fun socks and computers? Fuck yeah! I mean, not with this heat. But come colder days? Fuck yeah!

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      What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

      (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

      Commonly mentioned biases:

      Subject Mentions
      Pro-Privacy 2
      Left-Wing 9
      Anti-Capitalism 5
      American 5
      Older 2
      Pro-Linux 3
      Tech people 5
      Anti-Ai 4
      Pro-LBTQ+ 3
      Anti religion 3
      Pro-Communism 3

      Bonus: Gaming Biases

      Subject Mentions
      Nintendo hate 3
      Pro-SteamDeck 1
      Anti-GOG 1
      PC over console 1
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      #161

      For as politically Left as Lemmy tends to run there still seems to be a high level of mysoginy.

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      • S [email protected]

        This isn't even taking into consideration eating red meat which has a far great impact than any AI query ever will, but most anti-AI peeps aren't ready for that conversation.

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        #162

        If I stop eating beef am I morally allowed to use AI? /s

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          For as politically Left as Lemmy tends to run there still seems to be a high level of mysoginy.

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          #163

          Yes, but there mainly seems to be a large gender discrepancy.

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            What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

            (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

            Commonly mentioned biases:

            Subject Mentions
            Pro-Privacy 2
            Left-Wing 9
            Anti-Capitalism 5
            American 5
            Older 2
            Pro-Linux 3
            Tech people 5
            Anti-Ai 4
            Pro-LBTQ+ 3
            Anti religion 3
            Pro-Communism 3

            Bonus: Gaming Biases

            Subject Mentions
            Nintendo hate 3
            Pro-SteamDeck 1
            Anti-GOG 1
            PC over console 1
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            #164

            Already mentioned was the pro Linux and everything else sucks. Also, the Nintendo hate.

            What I haven't seen is the high acceptance/love of furry content. I didn't know people could draw animals that hot. Not that it awakened anything in me.

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              All capitalism is bad, and any attempt to rein it in is failure before any attempts.

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              #165

              Don’t pay attention to the trolls from .ml and hexbear.

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              • Q [email protected]

                What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

                (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

                Commonly mentioned biases:

                Subject Mentions
                Pro-Privacy 2
                Left-Wing 9
                Anti-Capitalism 5
                American 5
                Older 2
                Pro-Linux 3
                Tech people 5
                Anti-Ai 4
                Pro-LBTQ+ 3
                Anti religion 3
                Pro-Communism 3

                Bonus: Gaming Biases

                Subject Mentions
                Nintendo hate 3
                Pro-SteamDeck 1
                Anti-GOG 1
                PC over console 1
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                #166

                Most folks here seem to lean to a moderate left also, Conservatives are apparently grouped in with Republicans an MAGA.

                While it’s nice to see the community grow there really isn’t any diversity, for lack of a better word, in the political discussions made here.

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                  What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

                  (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

                  Commonly mentioned biases:

                  Subject Mentions
                  Pro-Privacy 2
                  Left-Wing 9
                  Anti-Capitalism 5
                  American 5
                  Older 2
                  Pro-Linux 3
                  Tech people 5
                  Anti-Ai 4
                  Pro-LBTQ+ 3
                  Anti religion 3
                  Pro-Communism 3

                  Bonus: Gaming Biases

                  Subject Mentions
                  Nintendo hate 3
                  Pro-SteamDeck 1
                  Anti-GOG 1
                  PC over console 1
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                  #167

                  American bias, millennial bias, left wing bias

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                  • notyou@sopuli.xyzN [email protected]

                    Already mentioned was the pro Linux and everything else sucks. Also, the Nintendo hate.

                    What I haven't seen is the high acceptance/love of furry content. I didn't know people could draw animals that hot. Not that it awakened anything in me.

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                    #168

                    You made me realise all the shit I've filtered. Def a furry bias and a anime girl bias here lol

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                      American bias, millennial bias, left wing bias

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                      #169

                      I've got 2 out of 3!

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                      • galoisghost@aussie.zoneG [email protected]

                        People before profit.

                        Cities should be walkable

                        AI as we know it was unethically developed and is more marketing than solution.

                        Trans rights are human rights. Even more, gender is a spectrum, so everyone really, is a tiny bit trans.

                        Fuck Israel.

                        Punch fascists.

                        Instant nudeln eignen gut für MaiMais

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                        #170

                        I mean if this was an ad for Lemmy, it would work on me. Though I'm not sure what the fuck the last one is but it sounds fun anyway, Melden Sie mich an.

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                          Trans people are almost attacked or banned all other platforms or at least astroturfed, it does make sense

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                          #171

                          Yep, I'm not trans but one of the main reasons I stopped even visiting reddit was how much transphobia there is everywhere. Like I used to be in a ton of LGBTQ+ subs and it was even showing up in there. I'm not about that life.

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                            .world is the right wing instance

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                            #172

                            I've been on .world for over a year now and haven't really seen anything I'd call blatantly right-wing. But if this is right wing and the rest of lemmy is even more leftist, I'll gladly join the rest of yas elsewhere.

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                            • knight_alva@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                              IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.

                              The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.

                              On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.

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                              It just struck me from the comments on this thread, but I think there's a correlation between the feeling of reddit 10-15 years ago and the average age here.

                              If we go by the estimates that most people are 25-45 around here, that's all of us that were probably hanging out on early reddit 10-15 years ago. Like, I joined reddit when I was about 17, I'm 33 now and moved here a year ago and definitely feel those early reddit vibes. It feels similar because that was us. Am I talking crazy?

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                                For as politically Left as Lemmy tends to run there still seems to be a high level of mysoginy.

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                                I think that comes with the techy side of lemmy. IT is still very much a male-dominated field and while it's better now than it was maybe 10 years ago, the mentality lingers and women in tech still run into a lot of misogyny. It makes sense that more tech minded users who tend to work in or have a big interest in IT have that mentality.

                                Even posting this, I'm a bit hesitant. To be clear, Lemmy is significantly less awful in terms of a lot of things, but I agree that I have seen some loud voices when it comes to misogyny.

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                                  You made a lot of assumptions about me in your comment. I’m not going to bother with them, because that’s honestly your job to handle.

                                  I don’t equate communism with (democratic) socialism. I consider myself a democratic socialist, and that’s part of the reason I consider myself progressive. The main difference is that democratic socialism makes room for multiple political parties, while communism accommodates only one. This is the essence of tyranny. No progressive should advocate for communism, because communism is another form of authoritarianism: subjugation to state rule.

                                  I have my problems with “woke” culture, just as I do with conservative culture. But most of my problems with woke culture have to do with their rhetoric and means of achieving their goals, rather than the goals themselves. A racially mixed workplace is something I highly value; achieving it by means of affirmative action is not something I support, because I think 50+ years of it have shown that it doesn’t really work. Yes, it has been shown to improve interracial relations in the workplace, but it has also been shown to cause workers to question the competency of coworkers that benefit from it, and make those who don’t feel discriminated against. This is not what it was intended for. It was supposed to counter inherent racist biases in corporate hiring systems. Instead, it’s become a system that is the very least viewed as a loophole for non-white employees. Obviously, not every case is an example of a non-white employee gaining an unfair advantage over a white employee, probably only a small fraction qualify as such, but as a system it has created the perception that Whites are being discriminated against. And its proponents have done virtually nothing to address that. That needs to change. I’m not saying the spirit of affirmative action needs to end, but its implementation need to change.

                                  If and when you respond, I would encourage you to not make assumptions about my stance. I don’t fit into the political boxes neatly.

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                                  It seems to me that the problem stems from you thinking communism necessitates authoritarianism. Communism is an economic system. You say you consider yourself a democratic socialist, while there is obviously a bit more nuance, in the absolute basics, that is saying the economic system you believe in is socialism, and the system of governance you believe is a democracy. Someone saying they are a communist would be the same situation as you saying you are a socialist, it's true but it doesn't state your full political beliefs. I obviously don't speak for the person you are responding to, nor can I assume that they have the same belief about this subject as I do, this is simply my interpretation of the disagreement, and my stance on it.

                                  Additionally, I would like to respond to your earlier mention of asking a communist to give you an example of a communist country that worked out in the end. The reason many people respond negatively to this is because of the history of communism, especially in relation to the US which is where much of Lemmy is from. The US has a history of intentionally destabilizing communist(and socialist) countries, as communism is inherently a threat to a country so heavily built on massive corporations. Because the US and other countries make such a point of preventing communism from succeeding, it can be frustrating when a lack of successful large scale communism is used as proof that communism can't work. Additionally, because this same argument is used so often, it can really begin to grate on someone's nerves after being asked it over and over again.

                                  I have tried my very best to not make any assumptions about you, other than the political ideology you stated you had, but if I accidentally did, please tell me. I do not wish to offend you, and rather just want to provide my input on what you have said.

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                                    I think that comes with the techy side of lemmy. IT is still very much a male-dominated field and while it's better now than it was maybe 10 years ago, the mentality lingers and women in tech still run into a lot of misogyny. It makes sense that more tech minded users who tend to work in or have a big interest in IT have that mentality.

                                    Even posting this, I'm a bit hesitant. To be clear, Lemmy is significantly less awful in terms of a lot of things, but I agree that I have seen some loud voices when it comes to misogyny.

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                                    Techy bias and recruiting from Redditors in the first place

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                                      If they ever picked up or even looked history on communism, they would actually won't advocate for it

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                                      It's always the same dipshit argument from ignorant liberals that have done a fraction of the reading and never even think to question whether they apply their own standards to themselves as they demand every socialist answer for the century old crimes of the Stalinists while their favored systems obviously had nothing to do with segregation or empire.

                                      All while they're obviously a special snowflake of a free thinker who "doesn't fit into any boxes" because they don't even know what the boxes are, yet insist on mindlessly repeating the same trite nonsense every other enlightened "centrist" vomits forth.

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                                      • Q [email protected]

                                        What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

                                        (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

                                        Commonly mentioned biases:

                                        Subject Mentions
                                        Pro-Privacy 2
                                        Left-Wing 9
                                        Anti-Capitalism 5
                                        American 5
                                        Older 2
                                        Pro-Linux 3
                                        Tech people 5
                                        Anti-Ai 4
                                        Pro-LBTQ+ 3
                                        Anti religion 3
                                        Pro-Communism 3

                                        Bonus: Gaming Biases

                                        Subject Mentions
                                        Nintendo hate 3
                                        Pro-SteamDeck 1
                                        Anti-GOG 1
                                        PC over console 1
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                                        #178

                                        From what I've seen Lemmy is pro-EU, pro-privacy, pro-Linux, very left-leaning, anti-capitalism, and strongly anti-AI.

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                                        • notyou@sopuli.xyzN [email protected]

                                          Already mentioned was the pro Linux and everything else sucks. Also, the Nintendo hate.

                                          What I haven't seen is the high acceptance/love of furry content. I didn't know people could draw animals that hot. Not that it awakened anything in me.

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                                          the groundwork for niche internet communities was laid by queer furry anime weirdos in the 70s

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